BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Tony Abbott, federal workplace relations minister, used
parliamentary privilege on May 29 to savagely attack the Australian Manufacturing
Workers Union and, in particular, Craig Johnston, the secretary of the
495
BY STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA — More than 100 students attended the Australian National
University Students' Association May 27 annual general meeting, at which
students voted to make opposition to mandatory detention and support for
asylum
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SYDNEY — On June 1, activists picketed defence department offices. The protest, called by Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific, demanded that Australia end its military ties with Indonesia, and called for freedom for Aceh.From Â鶹ӳ»
ALP ranks respond to mass pressure on refugees
The rumblings in the ranks of the ALP about the partyÂ’s disgusting sell-out
of refugees are increasing. In Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria,
ALP state conferences passed motions
Museworthy: Tampa: For the DrowningWho Were Watched
The air's carcass lieson the earth's bright back.
A newborn baby has been introducedto waterand waggles its headlike an ocean bird.
This is the day coming after the oneon which we gave
BY FELICITY MEAKINS
Indigenous languages and the stolen generations were another casualty of the 2002-03 federal budget. The $7.2 million previously allocated to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) for preserving and
Israel I
Boaz Magal (Write On, GLW #493) makes several correct criticism of Israel, but then tries to salvage some legitimacy for the Zionist state by saying, "there is no other place the Jews really can call home". If this is true, how do you
[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union
seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation.
This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP,
has been an
BY DAVE RILEY
At the heart of the current medical insurance crisis is the private
health-care system. Without specialist doctors on call and guaranteed liability
coverage, private health care — much praised by successive Labor and Coalition
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